I am drawn to work directly with, or take inspiration from ‘dirt’. Essential to our earthly fragile existence, it is often disregarded as repulsive, something to be scrubbed away in the relentless battle for sanitisation.
The universal subjects of growth and decay, fertility and death are inevitably interrogated when working with such a material as is the idea of value and waste.
Currently, through the use of clay, of which I also embed dirt, I’m working with the beauty of imperfection, the importance of transformation, and the inevitability of change.I aim to encourage people to pause, and perhaps even explore the impermanence of life, gently elevating the subtle, unassuming and the overlooked to a place of beauty and contemplation—reverence, even.
The universal subjects of growth and decay, fertility and death are inevitably interrogated when working with such a material as is the idea of value and waste.
Currently, through the use of clay, of which I also embed dirt, I’m working with the beauty of imperfection, the importance of transformation, and the inevitability of change.I aim to encourage people to pause, and perhaps even explore the impermanence of life, gently elevating the subtle, unassuming and the overlooked to a place of beauty and contemplation—reverence, even.